Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-02-25

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WELDING it Intelligently.
SEATTLE, Feb. 81, 1887.
ED. STANDARD:
Knowing that your paper has al
ways been a fearless champion of our
"lost cause" hope you will grant
space for a reply to "a Few Words
for the Judges" which appeared in
your issue of February 1lth:
More particular attention, however,
is requested to the following assevera-
tions contained therein:
at should be the duty of every man
| to protest against the passage of any fe-
male suffrage law hereafter. An act of
| that kind is an insult to the manliness of
men. 1t is confession OH their part
that they are not competent to WELD the
strong arm of government, and that du-
ties that deyolve upon them by nature
the upbuilding and preservation of civil
| government, can be as we'll performed by
women as by themselves.
The duties Of government are devolved
upon men, and if they execute it to the
best of their ability, no matter how i'm
perfectly that may be, no wOmanly wo-
man who can call one manly man her
| friend, will ever ask to take upon herself
| the duties of government.
This having been duty of men, a gov
ernment is directly the agent of men.
To be sure it protects the lives, liberty
and property of all, women as well as
men, but as l said that being the duty of
men, the government is doing the work
| of men. He has reposed in government
his most sacred duty, and for that gov
| ernment he and not woman, is RESPONSE
ble.'
Over quarter of a century ago, the
naughty slave owners of the South as
serted: "This is white mans gov
ernment." Four years of bloody, frat
ricidal war-the tolls and privations of
which were bravely borne by many of
the men who to-day deny to white, in
telligent women the rights conferred
upon the Ethiopian at such appalling
sacrifice of human life-have eliminat-
ed one little word from that lordly die
tum, and to-day we have the modifica-
ton: "This is mans government"
Verify the "Car of Progress" has a
speed usually accredited to northern
glaciers.
We feel a little surprise that men,
Der Of the learned profession" should
| l~o I, Al.
men are capable and competent to
regulate our government, correct all
evils and manage everything. Prob
ably no legislation to-day is more need
full than a revision of our divorce laws,
and the law of the property rights of
married women, the uncertainty of
which are only equalled by their inn
pOrtance. The chaotic condition of
these statutes alone, on which depends
more largely the happiness of the
weaker SEX" should be fatal to mas
culine complacency. There are no
laws in some States prohibiting Judges
from acting on their cases, and prob
ably the learned gentleman is well
aware of that case quoted in Mobiles
" Marriage and Divorce" where Mis-
souri, Judge actually divorced himself
from his wife. AS the legal author
candidly observed that "f for that gov
ernment he and not WOn,an IS respOn-
sible," We cheerfully give man all the
discredit due, and are devoutly thank
full no woman had "A hand in the mud
die. AS an 0biter dictum it may be
we'll to call attention to the case of
Richards VS.. Richards, Pennsylvania
case, where the Court held ait is
sickly sentiment which holds that a
man may not lay hands rudely if need
be upon his wife" Or that of Bradley
VS.. the State, where the Supreme
Court of Mississippi asserted that ga
husband should confine himself in
proper bounds when he sees fit to cor
rect his wife," Bishop, that we'll
known authority in this country on
Marriage and Divorce" who coolly de-
fines the position of husband and wife
as resembling "that between parent
and child, or guardian and maid," de-
clares that "the wife should conform
to the tastes and habits of her hus.
band" Notwithstanding this gentle
mans reputed legal acumen, we trust
there will be no sudden increase in the
demand for tobacco, liquor, etc.
This extremely optimistic and
"Ayer-y" theory advanced for the
protection of women might possibly
serve, if all men were manly" With
out any sarcastic inference as to its in
fallibility (of course) cut at random
from my morning paper one of the
many cases where womanly wo-
man" depended not only upon a {" man
ly friend" but upon one sworn to pro-
tect her:
SICKENING CRIME.
BOULDER Cob. Feb. 9.-Mr. and Mrs
WendOlin Moll, a young married couple,
living at the mouth of Left Hand creek,
eight miles from here. to all appearances
have lived very happily until three weeks
| ago, when the first baby was born, when
the husband became very abusive and
quarrelsome. On Monday night MOll,
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several times, knocking her down. She
did not resent the assault, being almost
heartbroken at his brutality. On Tues
day morning the husband got up early,
built fire, made some coffee, drank it,
and then sat down to smoke. The wife
was still in bed nursing the babe and
had fallen into a doze, when she was
awakened by the report OF gun. She
! Jumped up, but fell to the floor uncOn-